George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832Pimlico, 2004 - 373 Seiten The English poet George Crabbe, best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, clergyman, botanist, and novelist. An ambitious, resourceful, self-made professional man, he devoted his middle years to his children and his increasingly ill wife, after whose death he embarked, at 60, on an astonishing second life. This new biography charts Crabbe’s progress from an impoverished provincial childhood to the excitement and sophistication of late 18th-century London; through his career as a ducal chaplain and country parson whose addictions included theater-going and opium; to his final years when, as a rector, he traveled widely, met major literary figures, and fell in love with some remarkable young women. |
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... perhaps some form of adoption or patronage was envisaged ; perhaps the Seething Crabbes paid or assisted with Mr Harvey's fees . In any case , George must have seen something of his relatives : their prosperity and his early ( for a boy ...
... perhaps some form of adoption or patronage was envisaged ; perhaps the Seething Crabbes paid or assisted with Mr Harvey's fees . In any case , George must have seen something of his relatives : their prosperity and his early ( for a boy ...
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... perhaps , not often better than his own : but he may take mine and his own together , and , perhaps , between them , produce something better than either . He is not to think his copy wantonly defaced : a wet sponge will wash all the ...
... perhaps , not often better than his own : but he may take mine and his own together , and , perhaps , between them , produce something better than either . He is not to think his copy wantonly defaced : a wet sponge will wash all the ...
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... perhaps disconcertingly for his later readers , very like that of the businessman who goes to a play after a busy day at the office . No sooner has he done with the stage than he turns to ' PUFFS and all the puffing race ' , taking as ...
... perhaps disconcertingly for his later readers , very like that of the businessman who goes to a play after a busy day at the office . No sooner has he done with the stage than he turns to ' PUFFS and all the puffing race ' , taking as ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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